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March 27, 2005

Famed German Madman Gunter von Hagens Wishes You A Happy Easter.

And if Jesus isn't to your liking, he wishes to offer you your choice from amongst a vast array of lovely corpses that have also, after a fashion, risen from the grave.

As threatened, I finally went to Body Worlds at the Museum of Science and Industry, and spent roughly four hours sketching. So very, very worth the wait.

Interestingly enough, I got pounced on by security, along with all of my friends who showed up to sketch, and made to sign a release form promising I wouldn't sell or otherwise profit from the sketches. The release form also said I couldn't set up any easels, block traffic, and that I was required to stop drawing if attendance exceeded 400 persons at any one time.

I guess that's been a problem.

Afterwards, I and the rest of my art-fag compatriots hit Game On, another museum exhibition. It didn't even pretend to be educational, but just crammed every memorable game from Pong to Dance Dance Revolution into three big rooms and let you loose to remember how much you sucked at them. We stayed until they kicked us out.

We also saw baby chicks hatching. Then, we went out for Chinese and possibly ate their parents.

Life is good, and continues to be so rather reliably.

Posted by Spike at March 27, 2005 10:44 PM

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We also saw baby chicks hatching. Then, we went out for Chinese and possibly ate their parents.

I definitely parsed that wrong the first time through.

Posted by Nick Fagerlund at March 28, 2005 01:07 AM
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Mmm...Chinese people. Delicious and low in fat! So, did the Game On exhibit kick or suck ass? I've wanted to see it, but if it's just Asteroids and Lunar Lander on Free Play, I can go to my local nickel arcade for that.

Posted by bano at March 28, 2005 03:51 PM
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"Game On" was great. I loved it, it brought back a lot of memories. There was a lot of people walking by walls of console games placidly, then jerking their heads back, squealing like cheerleaders, and running to grab a controller. 'OMG I REMEMBER THIS GAME I ROCKED ASS AT THIS SOMEONE PLAY ME!!!"

For my part, I made a fool of myself at Galaxion, brushed up on my mad Mario Kart skillz, drowned an entire continent in lava in Populous (oops), had way too much fun with a kiddie LEGO block building game, and ran around like an ineffectual moron in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I watched everyone else play a lot more games, too, like DDR, which I never realized was so friggin' HARD.

Well worth the $5.00 admission.

Posted by spike at March 29, 2005 09:46 AM
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He's a maniacal psycho scientologist. Hope you won't let your children to see what he is doing.

(My unripe ovary children clamor to be plastinated at his hands. CLAMOR.

And Google disagrees with the "Scientology" thing.

-- spike)

Posted by anne a at May 26, 2005 12:19 PM
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